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North Dakota and South Dakota Join the Union

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CLEVELAND
President Grover Cleveland reportedly shuffled the two proclamations before signing so that no one could ever say with certainty which Dakota became a state first.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BISMARCK
Bismarck, named for German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to attract European railroad investment, became North Dakota's capital when statehood arrived in 1889.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HOMESTEAD
The Homestead Act of 1862 offered 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to farm it for five years, and it drew hundreds of thousands to the Dakota plains.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Both Dakotas statehood word search, playable online now. Cleveland signed both states on November 2, 1889, shuffling the papers so neither came first.

About North Dakota and South Dakota Join the Union

On November 2, 1889, President Grover Cleveland dipped his pen and signed two proclamations back to back, making North Dakota the 39th state and South Dakota the 40th, twin births on a single autumn afternoon. The Dakota Territory had drawn homesteaders westward with promises of open grassland, and by 1889 those settlers had built towns, broken prairie sod, and filled grain elevators with hard-won wheat. The wide Missouri rolled through both new states, bison still grazed the northern plains, and the Sioux people had called this land home for generations before any boundary line was ever drawn.

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